Color mixer



Aug. 24 1926.

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Patented Aug. 24, 1926.

UNITEDA'FSTATES EDWARD FLEEK, m euerteereetlromxa COLOR MIXER.

Application; filed June 15, 1925. Serial No. 37,268.

This invention aims to provide a simple but novel means for mixing coloring matter with oleomargarine or a similar substance, novel means being provided whereby the material, having been colored, may be expelled in a strip of predetermined cross sectional contour.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the the respective ends utility of devices of that type to whichthe invention appertains.

lVith the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows in longitudinal section, a device constructed in accordance with the invention, parts being in elevation; Figure 2 is a cross section on the line A-B of Fig ure 1, looking in the direction of the arrow marked 2; Figure 3 is a crosssection on the line A-B of Figure 1 looking in the direction of the arrow marked 3.

The numeral 1 designates a receptacle which may comprise a cylindrical body 2, a first cap 3 and a second cap 4 being held detachably, by threading or otherwise, on of the body 2. The cap 3 has a bearing 5. The cap 4 has an opening 6, which may be of rectangular'outline, the cap 4 being supplied with an external neck 7, disposed about the opening 6, a carrier cap 8 being threaded on the neck 7. The opening 6 is stopped by a closure 9, in the form of a block, shaped to fit closely in the opening, the closure 9 being held on the carrier 8 by a pivot element 10, the construction being such that although the closure 9 may be held against rotation in the opening 6, the cap or carrier 8, nevertheless, can be threaded on the neck 7. The receptacle is held on the edge of the table, or on any other accessible support, through the instrumentality of a: clamp 11 carried by the body 2, and to hold the receptacle the more securely on a support, the body 2 is provided with a transverse foot 12.

An operating member is mounted for lontacle 1 and having perforations 18.

gitudinal movement in the receptacle 1 and may be in the form of a quick-thread screw 14 threaded into the bearing 5 of the first cap 3 and supplied at its outer end with a handle 15, a head 16, in the form of a disk, being secured to the inner end of the screw 14, the head being located within the recep- The device comprises, also, an imperforate disklike follower 19 adapted to be placed in the receptacle 1 in advance of the head 16, the follower carrying a'pivoted handle 20 whereby the follower 1 ay be manipulated conveniently.

Assume that the closure 9 is in place, as in Figure 1, that the receptacle 1 contains coloring matter and material to be colored, that the cap 3 is in place, that the head 16 is retracted, and that the follower 19 is omitted. Then, when the screw 14 is rotated by means of the handle 15, the screw will move longitudinally, causing the foraminous head 16 to reciprocate in the receptacle 1, the material to be colored, and the coloring matter being squeezed back and forth through the perforations 18of the head 16, until the coloring matter is distributed evenly through the material which is to be colored. Then the cap 3 is removed, and with it the head 16. The follower 19 is mounted in place in the receptacle 1, and the cap 3 is replaced. The device then appears as in Figure 1. The carrier 8 is detached, the closure 9 being withdrawn from the opening 6. If, now, the screw 14, the head 16 and the imperforate follower 19 be advanced, the colored material will be pressed out through the opening 6 in the form of a strip having a rectangular cross section, and the strip may be cut up-into cubes of the common kind in which butter or oleomargarine is prepared for table use.

Among other combinations, the device comprises a receptacle 1 having an outlet 6, a removable closure 9 for the outlet, an operating member 14 movable in the receptacle, a mixing element 16 and an expelling element 19 both movable responsive to the operating member, the expelling element being removable at the will of an operator.

During the mixing operation, some prefer to leave 013? the cap 8 and the closure 9, and let the following disk 19 abut against the cap 4, as indicated in dotted line at 25 in Figure 1.

In adevice of the class described having an opening. in one end to facilitate clearing of the contained material therefrom, a removable closure for the opening, a perforated mixer, and means for reciprocating the mixer, the combination of an impertorate disk removably interposed between the mixer and the opening for removing the material from the device.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing my own, have hereto aflixed my signature;

- EDWARD O. FLEEK. 

